@sidownes: "I've had the same error message when I attempt to open my maintenance plans locally on the server.  Can open them from other servers, but they won't run.  Fails with a vague useless error message.
Been using this server for a couple of years, this is the only version of SQL that has been on this box. 
Has anyone got anywhere with getting SP 2 on their servers following this issue?"
    @russellfields: "si,
You may be suffering from the SP2 bugs with maintenance plans.  Some 
hotfixes were released to repair the main problems.  (Since I don't use 
maintenance plans I don't have the experience on exactly what problems 
resulted.)
You probably want to be at least at Cumulative Update 1 of SP2 
<url> but there are quite a few cumulative 
update packages that have follow CU1. Some recommend going to (but not 
beyond) build 3186 (CU3). <url>
Happily, the long delay in delivering CUs to requestors has been automated, 
so you still have to request them, but they will quickly be made available. 
And, FYI, there will be an SP3 later this year.
RLF
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